Wednesday, April 07, 2010

My kids never got detention

I used to teach at a school with A lunch, B lunch, and C lunch, lest anyone look at that and think "blunch!?"

The image was lifted from the facebook event "That's What She Said" Day, which is being observed Thursday, April 8, 2010.

This scholarly project is undertaken by students at the University of California at Irvine. I noticed it in Pam Sorooshian's facebook stream. Here it is for those who expect to be bored Thursday and want a juvenile pick-me-up (if Facebook itself isn't enough for you, I mean).

For me that phrase goes with school lunch, because the first time I heard "that's what she said," it was my friend Bobby Sultemeier, over on the west side of the music building during lunch one day. It was 1968 and we were 15. He was saying it about EVERYthing and wouldn't stop. "Shut up, Bobby." That's what she said! "That's gross." That's what she said! "You're really pissing me off now." That's what she said!

And I suppose the last time I heard it was last week, from Marty. I guess the next time I'll hear it might be Thursday.

It's cute that the teacher wrote out the whole joke on the detention slip up above. Owning that note is totally worth a detention, on the stage, during one lunch.

I was never in detention myself, but when I was a teacher I would choose detention duty over sports events anytime, and try to amuse and engage those kids who were being punished probably for being courageous and reasonable. Or funny.